Vehicle-shaft support.



Patented May I, I900.

E. JARRELL. VEHICLE SHAFT SUPPORT.

(Application filed Sept. 19, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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A7TOHNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICEe EDIVIN JARRELL, OF RIVERDALE, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWVARD E. CORNIVELL, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,870, dated May 1, 1900. Application filed September 19,1899. Serial No. 31,018. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWIN J ARRELL, of Riverdale, in the county ofSumner and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vehicle Shaft Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to supports for vehiole-shafts, whereby they may be held in an approximately-vertical position, so as to be out of the way when bringing the horse in position for harnessing and to occup less space when in the carriage-house.

The main object of the invention is a support of this character which will be capable of fine lengthwise adjustment, so as to fit shafts of difierent shapes 01' shafts in which the cross-bar is at different distances from the thill-couplings or vehicle-springs.

A further object of the invention is a support which will be simple and cheap in construction and of comparatively few parts.

The invention consists in certain details of construction and arrangement of the parts, which I shall first describe and then point out in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views in which they occur.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention as applied in use. Fig. 2 is a detail transverse section of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of a slightly-modified form, and Fig. at is a side'view of another modified form.

In the several forms of my invention I utilize the ordinary elliptical or other shaped springs for the vehicle-body for the necessary resiliency of my support, and to this end, as shown in Fig. 1, the support consists of a base-plate S, adapted to receive a clip R, by which it may be attached to the spring-barP of the vehicle springs and formed with a screw-threaded opening in which the screwthreaded shank I of the supporting-arm I works. The upper end of said supportingarm I is formed with a spherical head J, which is adapted to be forced under an angular wear-plate K, secured in any suitable manner to the cross-bar B of the shafts A. As

the shafts A are raised the said cross-bar 13 comes in contact with the head J of the supporting-arm and by reason of the resiliency of the vehicle-springs passes over thesaid head, whereupon the arm returns to its nor:

mal position and holds the shafts raised. A downward pull on the shafts causes the crossbar to pass over the head in the opposite direction.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 3 the base E is formed with afoot F, adapted to pass under and be held to one of the clips F, which secure the spring-bar Pon the vehicle-springs, and the said base is bent at its upper end, so as to bring the screw-threaded bearing I-I therein in alinement with the middle of the cross-bar B of the shafts. A screwthreaded arm 1 with a head J practically similar to the head J, is fitted in said bearing H and is adapted to pass under a wear-plate K on the cross-bar B, as in the form first described.

As shown in Fig. 4, the threaded shank E is bent at its upper end and has an upwardlycurved extremity P In this case the shank is so adjusted that the cross-bar of the shafts will pass underneath the bent end of the shank and be held by the downward pressure thereof.

It will be seen that I have produced supports for vehicle-shafts in which the vehiclesprings may be utilized and in which a threaded shank for the sup porting-arm is employed, so that the said arm may be adjusted to a nicety to adapt itself to shafts of different forms and sizes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a vehicle-shaft support, a base adapted for attachment to the vehicle-springs and formed with a threaded bearing, and a rigid supporting arm having a threaded shank fitted in the threaded bearing and having a head arranged for engagement with the crossand a spherical head adapted to be forced un der the cross-bar of the shafts by the con1- pression of the vehicle-springs, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN J ARRELL.

Witnesses:

E. E. CORNWELL, ASA M. BLACK. 

